Official LRC President Donald J Trump Thread

The law often appears to be "crystal clear" until it ends up in the court system. Dems argue that the request is legislative. Repubs say it's political. See you in court.

agip wrote:

another rat fleeing the sinking ship

This one wasn't corrupt, apparently, so she couldn't find a home in the trump administration.

Sure, she lied left and right and made stuff up to avoid dealing with the human garbage chute of DJT, but it doesn't appear that she had actual corruption on her brief. Amazing for a trump cabinet member. Her and Rick Perry. Long live those two.

Oh yeah did I mention she separated kids from parents FOREVER and put kids into cages? Did I forget that one?

These people are stained for life.

Looks like yet another 'acting' administration officer.

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You must have forgot that your hero Obama put kids in cages and you never once complained.

You seem to be desperate that Trump can break a clearly written law.

Legislative and political are a nothingburger word salad.

The Law wrote:

The Fokus wrote:

The law often appears to be "crystal clear" until it ends up in the court system. Dems argue that the request is legislative. Repubs say it's political. See you in court.

You seem to be desperate that Trump can break a clearly written law.

Legislative and political are a nothingburger word salad.

You seem to be desperate that this does not end up in court which many experts believe it will.

The Fokus wrote:

The Law wrote:

You seem to be desperate that Trump can break a clearly written law.

Legislative and political are a nothingburger word salad.

You seem to be desperate that this does not end up in court which many experts believe it will.

1) It will likely end up in court.

2) You all know I am no Trump fan, but as I have 100% integrity 100% of the time, I will say that I DO NOT like the reasoning behind the Democrats wanting Trump's tax returns. The REASON they give is not a high priority and smells of BS to me. What they should have done is be honest and investigate Trump for being compromised and then declare they need the taxes as part of that investigation. I would be all for that reason. I'm not for it just because Trump has not provided them while everyone since Nixon has. There is no law that says he has to do it. Perhaps there should be a new law, but right now there is not.

3) Wrapped up in all this is of course that Trump is a liar. His taxes have not been under audit since well before the 2016 election, and he never intended to release them...so two lies there.

Mueller is coming.

The clown is done.

There will be links to money from Russia in Trump’s return. Also links to emoluments violations.

Plus links to gangsters, since they’re his only “friends.”

Desperate trump fires top border official on a Sunday during border “emergency.” Blames Congress? Of course!

agip wrote:

Make Law wrote:

It will never go to the Supreme Court.

the problem with the law is that it has no penalty cited, and no time limit. So some judge will have to stand up and say 'ok, someone is going to jail or is going to pay a daily fine until this law is obeyed.'

Once the judge orders the government to turn over the tax return, any official who disobeys the order would be in contempt of court. So the judge can put them in jail for that.

The Fokus wrote:

The Law wrote:

You seem to be desperate that Trump can break a clearly written law.

Legislative and political are a nothingburger word salad.

You seem to be desperate that this does not end up in court which many experts believe it will.

It doesn't even take an expert. The logic is straightforward.

Tiny's government is refusing to turn over the tax returns. The only recourse is to go through the courts. It won't happen by magic.

Generally the courts are a remedy, but for instance another jurisdiction (SDNY) could have these records & share them, or he could be in contempt of Congress, or they could be leaked, or a new law could be passed (if GOP quits on him to have a better chance in 2020, since he’s got negative coattails).

I think the Democrats are being perfectly honest. The whole reason we have this law is because congress has an oversight duty to root out corruption in the federal government. Remember, the law that allows congress to obtain tax returns came out of the Teapot Dome Scandal.

So a president who does not release his tax returns should be audited by congress as a matter of standard procedure. It's a legitimate safeguard for our republic. We need to know about the president's conflicts of interest.

Can the US completely halt immigration?

Can the US completely halt receiving asylum seekers?

Would it be legal?

If it was part of a broader solution to the problem I would totally support it. But it’s not. He wants to get rid of immigration judges as well.

If you increase judges, at least temporarily, stream line the process, at least temporarily, then the system can catch up.

What about temporary shelters? Someone needs to order some Base-X tents!

Alan

The amount of money in CLOs right now is pennies compared to what was in CDOs and synthetic CDOs in 2007. There will be no CLO driven financial crisis

First Lady is a former illegal immigrant, don’t forget.

Racket wrote:

The amount of money in CLOs right now is pennies compared to what was in CDOs and synthetic CDOs in 2007. There will be no CLO driven financial crisis

But you do see the same flaws that lead to the 2008 crisis.

Providing credit where it shouldn't be provided.

Lenders taking fees upfront and then selling off their risk.

Bad loans being packaged with good loans like a grocery store mixing old hamburger with new hamburger and putting a new date on it.

People buying these packages as an investment without really knowing what's in it.

You may have mutual funds in your 401k that consist of of some of these CLOs.

That'll drop at some point and whoever has the hot potato at that point loses money.

People being placed in the Treasury and the Fed aren't the most scrupulous people right now and they have oversight of this kind of stuff.

That's bothersome.

Yes and trump is a multiple-bankruptcy profiteer already! Fox guarding hens.

More than capable of shorting the vulnerable & forcing a few profitable bankruptcies.

Trump has a pinhole sized brain.

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